Re-registration of Births and Deaths
191. The Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance and the Deaths Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance provide for the re- registration of births and deaths recorded in registers destroyed or lost during the Japanese occupation. 96 births were re-registered during the year, and altogether 5,866 births and 66 deaths have now been re- registered under these two Ordinances.
Prosecutions
192. Information given to the Police by the Registry led to a prosecu- tion against three persons for giving false information in relation to an application for post-registration of a birth. All three accused were convicted, and fined $100 each.
Adoptions
193. An Adopted Children Register is maintained at the General Register Office under the Adoption Ordinance. Table XLIII shows the relationship of adopters to the children adopted under the Adoption Ordinance in the past five years with figures for the five years from 1st January 1962 to 31st December 1966 shown in brackets. The numbers of adoptions over the past decade have been as follows:
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
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Total
...
Male Female
Total
65
112
177
46
99
145
51
60
111
47
76
123
45
60
105
39
54
93
57
113
170
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120
151
271
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109
146
255
140
165
305
719
1,036
1,755
It will be seen from the above that after an almost unbroken series of drops in the number of adoptions registered each year from 1962 to 1967, the downward trend was reversed in 1968. In 1971 the figures rose to a record 305, exceeding the 1970 figure by 50. During the year, 52% of the children adopted were over five years old and 74% over two years old. This appears to indicate that quite a large number of
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